Garden cactus plants from gardens of Kerala. The ideal succulent garden plants for a garden which need less care and least supply of water. Cactus, a member of the plant family Cactaceae. Their are more than 2000 varieties of cacti known. Most of the Cactus plants are native to the American desert lands. The plants are supposed to spread over the world through migratory birds eating cacti seeds.

Apart from ornamental plants some types of cacti are grown as boundary walls, food etc. Some of the cactus produces delicious fruits, and those varieties are cultivated commercially for their fruits.

Some cultivars of cactus produces brilliantly coloured flowers and the flowers are seen as an outgrowth from the stems and the spines. Instead of leaves cactus plants have their spines emerging from their succulent stems which often acts as a shield from plant eating animals. Cactus flowers are often night bloomers and most of them have exotic fragrance. The flowers are short lived and may die off by next morning.

The fresh spiny tower of Garden succulent, Cactus. These are generally referred under the class Cylindrical cactii. ofcourse the classification depending on the peculiar shape of the plant stem. Apart from cylindrical types a few other are also there depending on their peculiar stem shapes.

More generally depending on the striving conditions cactus can withstand, another classification as Jungle cacti and Desert cacti is also prevailing. Fact is, we may not even figure out a jungle cactus to be one of Cactus family if unfamiliar with them. Jungle cacti are not supposed to have the tough survival properties of desert cactus. Desert cactus clings to the common cactus properties and are easily identifiable. Desert cactus shows the tough striving properties of a desert succulent.

A close view of the hair like spines on the garden cactus cylindrical stem. The spines has extra functions like collecting moisture during night and resisting winds etc, apart from the primary mission of resisting predators.

General Types of cacti plants, Classification of cactus based on stem shapes

Angled Cacti - stems are angular with intermittent spines

Button like cacti - stems are grown short and in the shape of semi circular buttons.

Columnar cacti - stems grows height like that of lillies

Short Columnar cacti - Short and stems in columnar shape with spines.

Cushion like cactus - Spreads on the ground like cushioned stems.

Cylindrical cactus - cylindrical tall growth of cacti with dense spines. the one in the picture above is cylindrical cactus

their are some believes like that. i may say superstitions than believes. There are people who hangs cactus stems infront of newly built houses etc. what i can say about the matter is i dont believe in superstitions..

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